Around the World – Week beginning 13 August 2023 - Preview
Featured album this week is Rodrigo y Gabriela's In Between Thoughts...A New World
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Music from: Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, England, Brazil, Hungary, Ireland, Istanbul, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Mozambique, North Macedonia, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Tunisia, and USA.
Music by: Badiaa Bouhrizi, Baklava, Balamuc, Deodato Siquir, Dina El Wedidi, Diogo Picão, Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood, Elif Sanchez, Irma Ferreira, Janis Joplin Laliboi & Spoek Mathambo, Lankum, Lee Fry Music, Matthieu Saglio, MÍO, Nickodemus, Nina Virant VIRA, Noga Ritter, Our Native Daughters, Papua New Guinea Stringbands & Bob Brozman, Peter One, Ry Cooder, and Sahad
Featured Album: Rodrigo y Gabriela - In Between Thoughts...A New World
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Descending To Nowhere (Later... with Jools Holland)
Here’s something I didn’t know – and I’m rather shocked that I didn’t know it – I should have.
In 1999 Rodrigo y Gabriela had left Mexico for Europe and took up residence in Dublin. It was there that their career took off, first as buskers on Grafton Street and Dublin pubs, playing cover songs. They became friends with Damien Rice who invited them to open for one of his shows. And they haven’t looked back.[*]
In Mexico when they were growing up, their parents listened to flamenco, jazz, and rock music, but they were listening to bands like Metallica. That fusion led to the sound they have now.
Their new album is In Between Thoughts...A New World – it’s the featured album this week on Around the World.
BAKLAVA - Kej
Baklava started as a quartet, and in the Macedonian language, the word Baklava seemed like the perfect choice for a name, not only used as a term for the Turkish sweet, but also synonymous to Rhombus, the perfect geometric shape, or the hazard “Diamond”. At the same time, “Baklava” is a common symbol in the Macedonian tradition, representing equality, a blend of different cultures in art, and the four sides of the world.
Baklava were in Denmark, Spain, France, Germany, Czech, Belgium, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia… And they will continue to explore strange new worlds, to bodly go where no delight has gone before.
There’s more here on their website.
Peter One - Cherie Vico (SAVAS Session)
He’s in his late 60s and from the Ivory Coast – and that is the title of his first album in 40 years. Come back to me.
Peter One left the Ivory Coast – where he was a successful young musician in the 80s and 90s. – because of economic collapse, political corruption and mass violence. He settled in Nashville, the capital of Country Music
But he wasn’t a musician there – he worked in care homes. Until a small American label contacted him to re-release his first African album – which led to reviews, and a deal for a new album.
Read more about Peter One here on The Guardian and here on his own website.
Sunday:
Bangor FM 107.9 (Radio Garden) 7:00 pm local time BST (8:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 10:00 pm local time BST (11:00 pm CET)
Ferry FM 10:00 pm local time BST (11:00 pm CET)
Radio Larne 10:00 pm local time BST (11:00 pm CET)
Armagh City Radio 10:00 pm local time BST (11:00 pm CET)
Monday:
KNC Radio St Lucia 6:00 am local time (11:00 am BST 12:00 noon CET)
Akaroa World Radio 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am BST, 12:00 noon CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am BST, 12:00 noon CET)
U Radio Sri Lanka 7:30 pm local time SLT (3:00 pm BST, 4:00 pm CET)
Tuesday:
Lisburn’s 98FM (Radio Garden) 7:00 pm local time BST (8:00 pm CET)
FM105 Down Community Radio (Radio Garden) 7:00 pm local time BST (8:00 pm CET)
Wednesday:
World FM 4:00 am local New Zealand Time (5:00 pm Tuesday BST, 6:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 4:00 am local time BST (5:00 am CET)
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm local time BST (11:00 pm CET)
Friday:
Akaroa World Radio 2:00 pm local New Zealand Time (3:00 am BST 4:00 am CET)
Saturday:
Essential Radio Midnight to 2:00 am local time BST (01:00 am CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am BST, 12:00 noon CET)